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Genèse 22

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1 Or il arriva après ces choses, que Dieu éprouva Abraham, et lui dit : Abraham! Et il répondit : Me voici.

2 Et Dieu lui dit : Prends maintenant ton fils, ton unique, celui que tu aimes, Isaac, et t'en va au pays de Morijah, et l'offre là en holocauste sur l'une des montagnes que je te dirai.

3 Abraham donc s'étant levé de bon matin mit le bât sur son âne, et prit deux de ses serviteurs avec lui, et Isaac son fils; et ayant fendu le bois pour l'holocauste, il se mit en chemin, et s'en alla au lieu que Dieu lui avait dit.

4 Le troisième jour Abraham levant ses yeux, vit le lieu de loin.

5 Et il dit à ses serviteurs : Demeurez ici avec l'âne; moi et l'enfant marcherons jusque-là, et adorerons, après quoi nous reviendrons à vous.

6 Et Abraham prit le bois de l'holocauste, et le mit sur Isaac son fils, et prit le feu en sa main, et un couteau; et ils s'en allèrent tous deux ensemble.

7 Alors Isaac parla à Abraham son père, et dit : Mon père! Abraham répondit : Me voici, mon fils. Et il dit : Voici le feu et le bois, mais où est la bête pour l'holocauste?

8 Et Abraham répondit : Mon fils, Dieu se pourvoira lui-même de bête pour l'holocauste. Et ils marchaient tous deux ensemble.

9 Et étant arrivés au lieu que Dieu lui avait dit, Abraham bâtit là un autel, et rangea le bois, et ensuite il lia Isaac son fils, et le mit sur l'autel, au-dessus du bois.

10 Puis Abraham avançant sa main, se saisit du couteau pour égorger son fils.

11 Mais l'Ange de l'Eternel lui cria des cieux en disant : Abraham, Abraham! Il répondit : Me voici.

12 Et il lui dit : Ne mets point ta main sur l'enfant, et ne lui fais rien; car maintenant j'ai connu que tu crains Dieu, puisque tu n'as point épargné pour moi ton fils, ton unique.

13 Et Abraham levant ses yeux regarda, et voilà derrière [lui] un bélier, qui était retenu à un buisson par ses cornes; et Abraham alla prendre le bélier, et l'offrit en holocauste au lieu de son fils.

14 Et Abraham appela le nom de ce lieu-là, l'Eternel y pourvoira; c'est pourquoi on dit aujourd'hui; en la montagne de l'Eternel il y sera pourvu.

15 Et l'Ange de l'Eternel cria des cieux à Abraham pour la seconde fois,

16 En disant : J'ai juré par moi-même, dit l'Eternel; parce que tu as fait cette chose-ci, et que tu n'as point épargné ton fils, ton unique,

17 Certainement je te bénirai, et je multiplierai très-abondamment ta postérité comme les étoiles des cieux, et comme le sable qui est sur le bord de la mer; et ta postérité possédera la porte de ses ennemis.

18 Et toutes les nations de la terre seront bénies en ta semence, parce que tu as obéi à ma voix.

19 Ainsi Abraham retourna vers ses serviteurs, et ils se levèrent, et s'en allèrent ensemble en Beer-Sébah ; car Abraham demeurait à Béer-Sébah.

20 Or il arriva après ces choses, que quelqu'un apporta des nouvelles à Abraham, en disant : Voici, Milca a aussi enfanté des enfants à Nacor ton frère.

21 [Savoir] Huts son premier-né, et Buz son frère, et Cémuel père d'Aram,

22 Et Késed, et Hazo, et Pildas, et Jidlaph, et Béthuel;

23 Et Béthuel a engendré Rébecca. Milca enfanta ces huit à Nacor frère d'Abraham.

24 Et sa concubine nommée Réuma, enfanta aussi Tébah, Gaham, Tahas, et Mahaca.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #2913

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2913. 'And spoke to the sons of Heth, saying' means those with whom a new spiritual Church was to exist. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'Heth' and of Hittite. Many were the nations inhabiting the land of Canaan who are mentioned one by one in various places in the Word, among them the Hittites, see Genesis 15:20; Exodus 3:8, 17; 13:5; 23:23; Deuteronomy 7:1; 20:17; Joshua 3:10; 11:1, 3; 12:8; 24:11; 1 Kings 9:20; and elsewhere. Most of them belonged to the Ancient Church which was spread through many lands, including the land of Canaan, see 1238, 2385. All who belonged to that Church acknowledged charity as the chief thing, and everything they taught was about charity or life. People who cultivated teachings about faith were called Canaanites and were separate from the rest of the inhabitants in the land of Canaan, Numbers 13:29 - see 1062, 1063, 1076.

[2] The Hittites belonged among those in the land of Canaan who were more acceptable. This is also made clear by the fact that Abraham, and subsequently Isaac and Jacob, dwelt among them and had a burial-place there, and also by the fact that they treated Abraham with greatest respect, as is quite clear from what is recorded about them in this chapter, especially verses 5-6, 10-11, 14-15. Since they were an upright nation they therefore represent and mean the spiritual Church, or the truth of the Church. But it happened that like all the others who belonged to the Ancient Church the Hittites fell away in the course of time from charity or good that goes with faith; and this explains why later on they mean the falsity of the Church, as in Ezekiel 16:3, 45, and elsewhere. Yet the Hittites did belong among those who were more honourable, as may be seen from the fact that David had Hittites with him, such as Ahimelech, 1 Samuel 26:6, and Uriah, who was a Hittite, 2 Samuel 11:3, 6, 17, 21 - by whose wife Bathsheba David begot Solomon, 2 Samuel 12:24. 'Heth' means exterior cognitions that have regard to life and which constitute the external truths of the spiritual Church, 1 see 1203.

[3] The subject in the present verse is a new Church which the Lord establishes when the previous one breathes its last, and in the verses which follow the subject is the reception of faith among those people. The subject is not some particular Church among the sons of Heth but in general the re-establishment by the Lord of a spiritual Church after its predecessor fades away and approaches its end. The sons of Heth are simply those who represent and carry a spiritual meaning. Please see what has been stated already about Churches in the following places:

In course of time a Church goes into decline and decay, 494, 501, 1327, 2422.

It departs from charity, and brings forth evils and falsities, 1834, 1835.

At that point the Church is said to be vastated and made desolate, 407-411, 2243.

The Church is established among gentiles; the reason why, 1366.

Within a Church undergoing vastation something of the Church is always preserved as a nucleus, 468, 637, 931, 2422.

If the Church did not exist in the world the human race would perish, ibid.

The Church is like the heart and lungs in that vast body, of which every member of the human race is a part, 637, 931, 2054, 2853.

The nature of the spiritual Church, 765, 2669.

Charity constitutes the Church, not faith separated from charity, 809, 916.

If all possessed charity the Church would be one even though they differ in matters of doctrine and in forms of worship, 1285, 1316, 1798, 1799, 1834, 1844, 2385.

All people on earth who belong to the Lord's Church, though they are scattered throughout the entire world, still so to speak make a single whole, as is the case in heaven, 2853.

Every Church is internal and external, and both together constitute a single Church, 409, 1083, 1098, 1100, 1242.

The external Church is valueless if there is no internal Church, 1795.

The Church is compared to the rise and the setting of the sun, to the seasons of the year, and also to the periods of the day, 1837.

The Last Judgement is the final period of the Church, 900, 931, 1850, 2117, 2118.

Fusnotat:

1. Or, reading what Swedenborg has in his rough draft the truths of the external spiritual Church

  
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